On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage in its US EAST region (Northern Virginia), triggered by DNS and internal “EC2 / DynamoDB” issues. The ripple effect was vast, taking down services across games, social platforms, and enterprise apps. Among the affected games were Fortnite and Clash Royale, each relying on cloud-infrastructure that, in this case, proved vulnerable.
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The incident underscores a broader lesson: as discussed in multiple tech-analysis pieces, the outage exposed how many large services have a single point of failure in one region or one provider. For gamers, the outage was a rare but stark reminder that offline modes or local play may be the only reliable fallback when key services go down. For game-operators, it’s a signal to diversify infrastructure, build fault-tolerance across regions/providers, and communicate clearly when outages happen.
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